Customizing the Appearance of Reports

Some custom report templates have an option that enables you to customize the appearance of your Line Graph, Bar Chart, and Pie Chart reports. You can either add these customizing features when you are initially creating the report request, or you can later modify the report request to include the desired appearance customization.

After you click the Customize button in the report template, the Customize Graph dialog box appears. The dialog box contains the following three tabs, from which you can specify these appearance changes:

• Titles & Legend: You can add a Footer and change the Legend Text. From the drop-down menus, you can choose the placement of the Footer or Legend on the graph. You can change the X-Axis and Y-Axis Labels using the text fields.

• Line Attributes: Use the All Lines options to change the appearance of the Line Thickness or Line Style, and Symbol Size. Use the drop-down menus to make your selections. Use the Specific Line options to change the appearance of a line you select from the drop-down menu.

• Size & Spacing: Use the text fields to control the size of the graph width and height, or the X-Axis and Y-Axis scale. You enable grid lines on the graph by selecting Show Grid. The value range for grid spacing is 0 to 100.

Some of the options in the Customize Graph dialog box are not available for Pie Chart reports.

Once you have finished selecting all the customizing options, click OK to dismiss the dialog box. You must also click OK from the report template for these options to be saved to the report request.